[BOAI] Integration of Digital Libraries and Open E-Learning Systems

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from K.R. Srivathsan, via Subbiah Arunachalam.  This is a
presentation at International Conference on Digital Libraries. New Delhi,
February 23-26, 2010.
--Peter Suber.]


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Srivathsan <srivathsan at ignou.ac.in> wrote:

>
> My tutorial...is on "*Open Distributed Technology Enabled Learning*".  The
> title and abstract of my talk are as follows.
> -----------------------------------
> *TITLE: *"*Integration of Digital Libraries and Open E-Learning Systems*"
>
> Authors: K.R. Srivathsan and Sukant Kole
>
> *ABSTRACT: *
>
> **With Open Content, Open Access Publishing, Open Courseware, and Open
> Education Resources rapidly growing, the logical next stage in the global
> developments in education will be how to establish formal Open Education
> System. Towards this, IGNOU has developed and now deploying the 'Open
> Distributed Technology Enabled Learning', or, ODTEL for its courses. ODTEL
> is a unified open e-Learning framework for open university systems,
> conventional classroom type education and various mix of blended learning
> systems that use multiple modes (like Internet, printed materials, TV,
> Webinar, Community Radio, Mobile, etc.) of reaching and engaging learners in
> focused learning activities.
>
> In such an e-learning framework we have the capability of contextualizing
> the content by linking relevant digital library and open access resources
> postings in the learning modules. However as a course is run, we create
> formal as well as not-so-formal new e-content like the Assignment Postings,
> new recorded video lectures, term papers and links to new library
> accumulations. Now there is the two-way flow of content from the digital
> library to the course as well as new content postings submitted by the
> teachers and the class in several courses to be screened, filtered,
> classified and posted in to the Digital Library of the institution or
> organization. Such library collections may be formal, semi-structured or
> non-formal.
>
> Our challenge is to develop an interface system in the Digital Library of
> the organization that allows for receiving such content from multiple
> sources or courses, and postings in web pages. We present such content feeds
> to a Library Reception interface, have them screened and filteredby
> librarians and redirect them with annotated library type metadata framework
> like Dublin Core with suitable extensions. Similarly as and when new digital
> library collections are added, we need to present a Digital Library
> interface to  the users at large, indicate titles of such collections with
> keywords and abstract so that course instructors are encouraged to link such
> content to their applicable course modules.
>
> At IGNOU we are working on such a two-way linked Digital Library interface
> using a Wiki with suitable extensions that hosts the IGNOU Open Course Guide
> (IOCG) for the Open Education, a back end Content Management System (CMS)
> that gets feeds from the IOCG wiki pages and an interface that helps the
> librarians to take applicable contents to the library collections in the
> metadata framework of the library. The talk will summarize the architectural
> and management principles of such two-way linked Libray - e-Learning
> interface. We also show how this new system conforms to the spirit of the
> 'Five Laws of Library Science'. Such a system as the one under development
> is also a powerful tool in managing community library portals with front end
> social networking services.
> -----------------------------
>
> Best regards,
> Srivathsan
>
>
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